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>> The thing that attracted me, well, that sort of has stayed
with me, is the particular moral culture here.
Its sense of mission gives you perspective in life,
helps you make choices, and you know, culture of achievement,
and it's been awesome.
It's a really intense peer relationship type place.
The physical isolation makes it --
the bonds you form with your classmates are so much greater,
I think, when you're not, you know, in the middle
of New York City, for instance, where I live now
but would've hated to go to school.
It would've been awful, and it
concentrates the experience so much more being up here, and
it's a really unique place and culture
that you can't get anywhere else.
It's unique in every sense.
One of the things at Dartmouth is the best education comes
from the kids around you, and you get 4,000 interesting,
smart people in one place, and they're going
to find interesting things to do with each other.
You know, in the course of my job, I try to keep in touch
with college students, not only Dartmouth college students
but other college students just because of my age
and journalism is a hard field to get into,
and I caught a break and try to help other people.
But, you know, you talk to people from other schools,
and sometimes you find that they're unhappy,
and that was never my experience at Dartmouth.
It was never my friends' experience at Dartmouth.
But in terms of alumni connections,
got to know my current boss as an undergraduate through one
of his former professors who I became close to.
The Journal offered me an internship and happened
to be expanding at that time,
and so I was taken on staff permanently.
So it's just completely through the college
that I ended up where I am now.